#NohemieandCo chats with Founder of Barre + Bay Wreath, Erika Gray. Erika shares how her own experience, belief in community + creating a safe space resulted in her building an incredibly unique barre studio + marketplace. With a passion for wellness & safety, Erika focuses her business on helping others create beautiful lifestyles & encourage their well-being. This lifestyle brand achieves its goal through many different outlets such as health-conscious products, floral services, different body training classes, and branding courses. Listen for more of Erika’s inspiring journey that led to this diverse wellness business, focused on stimulating your own lifestyle & growth as it has done for her. Barreandbaywreath.com @barreandbaywreath

#NohemieandCo talks business strategy with Brian Cliette, a full-stack marketer, investor, and entrepreneur. Brian shares how his identity as a Muslim is integrated into his business approach, and how he perfected his strategy after starting two businesses of his own. After analyzing successful companies such as Amazon, Brian shares all he learned about digital & growth marketing strategies with others to market their business effectively. Armed with experience, Brian emphasizes having community as your biggest asset in building your brand - through outlets such as mailing lists & social media followings. Listen in for more of Brian’s nuggets of knowledge. www.briancliette.com

#NohemieandCo talks with OEM Founders Shun & Ceilidh MacLeod as they navigate the drugstore/health world. Motivated by the need to enhance the drugstore experience, OEM offers a wide range of drugstore products with natural-derived ingredients. By introducing simple, healthy & effective products for use in your daily life, such as ointments, listen more on how OEM (On Earth Momentarily) defeats surface-level marketing by introducing empathy & care as you navigate essential products for your health. oem.care @oem.care

#NohemieandCo chats with Clare, Founder of Folio, an online bookstore and book community. At 24, Clare built Folio herself, technologically and entrepreneurially, while equipped with her knowledge & longtime passion for coding. Clare pursued Folio after seeing the lack of a social aspect attached to the online book shopping experience itself. In this age of Book-stagram and various book reviews on YouTube, Folio functions as a centralized book community, where customers enjoy a personalized experience based on their interests & previous reads. Now thriving as an amazing book society & online bookstore, follow along as Folio expands into various ventures to widen its social reach, such as their blog Between The Fold. www.foliobookshop.com @foliobookshop

#NohemieandCo sits down with Russell, Founder of Lily CBD, a small-batch business based out of Brooklyn. With the need for an effective medicinal product, Russell draws from his personal experience with his mother’s health issues to pursue this natural health venture. Listen in to find out how Russell navigates the oversaturated CBD business, counters doubts, and tackles questions approaching the topic of cannabis and its negative connotations, along with the medical research behind its effectivity. lilycbd.com @lilycbd

#NohemieandCo chats with Melanie, founder of the beverage company, Ghia. Ghia provides inviting non-alcoholic apéritifs made with healthy ingredients, and offers the same complexity in flavour as your favourite cocktail. Targeting those who do not consume alcohol or are simply health-conscious, Melanie wanted to fill the gap in the beverage market with this versatile product that suits anyone’s preference. Beginning with the idea of being restaurant-exclusive, Ghia is a standalone beverage store in its own right. As someone who wants to be remembered for bringing people together, Melanie conceived Ghia with this same sentiment in mind as a drink for your social gatherings, inclusive for everyone. Ghia @drinkghia Ghia | LinkedIn

#NohemieandCo sits with Asia Grant, Co-Founder of Redoux, as she speaks on running a business with her best friend, and transitioning from marketing to entrepreneurship. Diving into skincare, Asia is focused on turning banal objects like soap into a personable and unique experience, by introducing culture-inspired scents. Starting & running a business throughout COVID, see how Asia and her Co-Founder tackled funding & marketing to help Redoux make a lasting impact. redoux.nyc @redouxnyc

#NohemieandCo talks with Samuel Bertram, Co-Founder of Willo, a direct-to-consumer produce farm that functions entirely with modern farming technology. Willo personalizes the experience of harvesting healthy greens your way, where you can choose what you grow and it will arrive at your door. Using his Mechanical Engineering degree and genuine interest in business, Samuel explains how this technological process is the most sustainable & cleanest way to handle the future of farming everywhere. See more of Willo: Willo.farm @willo_farm

#NohemieandCo sits down with Denetrias Charlemagne for Episode 2, the Co-Founder of Avec Drinks. Going from working in marketing to entrepreneurship, Denetrias made her mark in the food & beverage industry by offering a new type of mixer. Valuing the social aspect of bringing people together for drinks, Denetrias shows the process of releasing these all-natural, health-conscious carbonated drinks. See more of Avec Drinks!

#NohemieandCo kicks off Season 4 with Nathan Shantz, where we talk about all things money. We touch on the fundamentals of money, from the history of gold to modern-day cryptocurrency, and how you can leverage money to thrive from anywhere in the world. Tune in to understand how financial value works geographically and how it circulates in this day and age. See more of Nathan on LinkedIn!

#LetsTalk Season 3's final episode presents Yesfolk Tonics, where we chat with the founders and husband and wife duo Adam Elabd & Yiyi Mendoza on their New York-based beverage company. As we chat, Adam & Yiyi care for their newborn baby and actively show how they balance running their amazing, family-led small business with Yiyi's brothers while embracing their new family life! Listen in on their story of how they started the company, what decisions they make to maintain their business especially during Covid, and how they came up with such impactful branding. @yesfolk yesfolktonics.com

#LetsTalkPodcast features @peakandvalleyco Founder, Nadine Joseph, for this week's episode! She gives us a deep dive into the natural and lifestyle benefits from her herbal supplement brand, targeting those (like us) who juggle multiple things at once and are constantly in the hustle! Nadine emphasizes why self care and slowing down are key aspects of what our generation needs during this time for the sake of our mental health and immune system, and how natural herbal supplements support your journey in doing so. Check out her brand for a refreshing take on the benefits of natural products, in comparison to the saturated market of medicinal supplements! @peakandvalleyco peakandvalley.co

Beautéboard Co-Founder Natalie Tuffuoh speaks with #LetsTalk about how this amazing platform aims to help ease the beauty journey for its audience! This wonderful brand aims to give people an in-depth look at every beauty/self care product in order to help you make the right choice for you + your skin. Natalie in turn shares her own self love journey as well and how it influenced her to create this amazing business that fills the informational gap in the market and eases the beauty and self love journey for others, providing the kind of support she dreamt of for herself! @beautéboard beautéboard.com

#LetsTalk chats with Jenieka Dixon, a motivated and inspiring hustler who functions primarily within the social media space! This amazing femmepreneur tells all about how she manages her 9-5 while working on her side hustles and her secrets to how she does it all. Working within the affiliate marketing space, Jenieka uses her position towards empowering women of color in all aspects and what diversity should really mean when it comes to businesses dedicating themselves to its concept. Check out Jenieka's Instagram to keep up with her multiple avenues of business and as a source of inspo for your own journey! @jeniekasdixon

Happy 2021! #LetsTalk powers through the new year with another episode, tackling the discussion of workplace culture with Mike Procee, Co-Founder of Cratic.ai! This modern digital product serves as an online toolkit targeted towards employees looking to increase their team dynamic and communication. Cratic achieves this by creating an open dialogue within a workplace, through individual weekly surveys followed by team huddles for discussing the surveys' top answers and important topics! Over the weeks, the insights reveal where the work culture and team dynamic can improve. Mike touches more on how he joined the Cratic team, how his educational background in Engineering + Business Administration applies to his current practices, and how his job in corporate helped him gain great perspective on the modern work culture. We also chat about the importance of the relationships between people in the workspace, and within entrepreneurship in general! Check out their website to see more of Cratic. W: Cratic.ai LinkedIn: Cratic Ai

#LetsTalk chats with Founder of Lark, Michelle Donnelly, whose brand is making waves on social media in the Toronto scene. This environmentally-conscious practice uses the Milkman model - Lark delivers spring water in glass bottles to your home address in the GTA and picks up the bottles afterwards for reusability. This brand offers different flavours of water for you to choose from, making it more appealing in its variety of healthy products. Michelle also shares with us the quick pivots her brand has had to endure as they opened just two days prior to COVID lockdown! Support this amazing sustainable product here: Instagram: @lark_dff Website: larkdff.com

This week features Cathy Tang, founder of the incredibly successful Toronto-based athleisure brand Saya The Label! Cathy gives us insight on her journey towards establishing her brand primarily on Instagram, really taking over the Toronto scene, and how she places emphasis on growing the brand name locally through relationships as well as word of mouth. Cathy also shared with us how her previous retail experiences with big name brands led to her passion in ensuring a safe, genuine and honest process for the production of staple clothing that will last a lifetime! Check out this gem of a brand here: @sayathelabel sayathelabel.com

For this episode, #LetsTalk features Éva Goicochea, the NY-based founder of sexual wellness brand Maude! Being one of the few to raise over $1 million in venture capital fund for a brand within an industry that's incredibly difficult to raise money for, Éva tells us about how she created Maude with key team members, and how she intends to grow it in the future. She also elaborates on why she chose to ensure her marketing catered to a broad audience rather than a targeted demographic and how it works in her favor. Outside of her incredible entrepreneurial successes, Éva shares with us her balanced lifestyle with her life partner, as well as her passionate love for puppies and all things animals! Check out her amazing progress with Maude along with her other ventures. getmaude.com evagoicochea.com

Lohn founders, Katerina + Victoria, chat with #LetsTalk about building their business from the ground up. Both femmepreneurs share their beginnings within chemical engineering, and how their experiences after graduating led to exploring the beauty world from Canada to France! Following their journey collecting knowledge, Kat + Vic elaborate on starting Lohn in the digital space from scratch, along with carefully choosing what goes into each of their candles and scents. They also share the importance of speed over perfection, along with trial and error, in the world of entrepreneurship. See more of them here: @lohnofficial shoplohn.com

#LetsTalk sits with Lindsay Wynn, founder of Momotaro Apotheca, to talk about their business serving products focused on improving women's sexual health. Learning to unpack this taboo topic as a regular health conversation, Lindsay elaborates on her own difficult journey in finding preventative products that improve her own sexual health thus getting into the business that is Momotaro Apotheca. She shares her future plans and expansions for Momotaro along with her small team, while instilling inspiration, authenticity and courage with her brand and her voice. See more of her work here: @lovemomotaro momotaroapotheca.com